serve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 服务， 尽责； 招待， 侍候； 符合， 适用，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having, as it were, taken formal possession of his clerkship in virtue of these proceedings, he opened the window and leaned negligently out of it until a beer-boy happened to pass, whom he commanded to set down his tray and to serve him with a pint of mild porter, which he drank upon the spot and promptly paid for, with the view of breaking ground for a system of future credit and opening a correspondence tending thereto, without loss of time.
-- Let not the light scorners of female fascination erect their ears to listen to a new tale of love which shall serve them for a jest; for Miss Brass, however accurately formed to be beloved, was not of the loving kind.
-- Solitary as their lives were, is there no one person who would serve my purpose?'
-- 'Don't!No, because he has never seen him,' rejoined Quilp; 'but if we were to bring them together, who knows, Dick, but Fred, properly introduced, would serve his turn almost as well as little Nell or her grandfather who knows but it might make the young fellow's fortune, and, through him, yours, eh?'
-- My only desire is to serve you, Kit; therefore if you do, say so freely.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff opened the perfumed letter and began to read: "In fulfillment of the duty I assumed of being your memory," the letter ran, "I call to your mind that you have been summoned to serve as juror to-day, the 28th of April, and that, therefore, you cannot accompany us and Kolosoff to the art exhibition, as you promised yesterday in your customary forgetfulness; 脙聽 moins que vous ne soyez dispos脙漏 脙聽 payer 脙聽 la cour d'assises les 300 rubles d'amende que vous vous refusez pour votre cheval, for your failure to appear in time.
-- "I must also tell you," said Nekhludoff, "that I cannot continue to serve as juror."
-- Nekhludoff expected that at the first meeting Katiousha, learning of his intention to serve her, and of his repentance, would be moved to rejoicing, would become again Katiousha, but to his surprise and horror, he saw that Katiousha was no more; that only Maslova remained.
-- "But I will serve you anyway."
-- Nekhludoff asked her about the girl with the sheep eyes, and Vera Efremovna told him that she was the daughter of a general, that she had assumed the guilt of another person, and was now going to serve at hard labor in Siberia.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hunter, serve out a round of brandy to all hands."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must absolutely bring down some game to satisfy this cannibal, or else one of these fine mornings, master will find only pieces of his servant to serve him."
-- I understood; the wonderful qualities of the Nautilus were going to serve us in this superhuman enterprise.
-- As to the molluscs, they consisted of some I had already observed turritellas, olive porphyras, with regular lines intercrossed, with red spots standing out plainly against the flesh; odd pteroceras, like petrified scorpions; translucid hyaleas, argonauts, cuttle-fish (excellent eating), and certain species of calmars that naturalists of antiquity have classed amongst the flying-fish, and that serve principally for bait for cod-fishing.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are quite willing to serve the public but to be a private tutor ""I don't want to serve either ""No!And Gudrun will probably feel the same."
-- His mind was obedient to serve his will.
-- I want you to serve my spirit."
-- You don't want to serve me, and yet you want me to serve you.
-- I serve you in another way not through yourself somewhere else.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had remarked on one side of the road, at intervals of six or seven yards, a line of upright stones, continued through the whole length of the barren: these were erected and daubed with lime on purpose to serve as guides in the dark, and also when a fall, like the present, confounded the deep swamps on either hand with the firmer path: but, excepting a dirty dot pointing up here and there, all traces of their existence had vanished: and my companion found it necessary to warn me frequently to steer to the right or left, when I imagined I was following, correctly, the windings of the road.
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